TOKYO — A local government in southwestern Japan on Tuesday advised residents to stay indoors or wear masks when they go outside in the nation's first official health warning over smog drifting in ...

The environment ministry’s website has been overloaded as worried users log on to try to find out what is coming their way. “Access to our air-pollution monitoring system has been almost impossible ...

TOKYO: The face masks, thick dark haze and pollution warnings plaguing residents of China's capital this week once were a fact of life for people living in Japan's biggest industrial cities. Japanese ...

Japan logged a huge surge in air purifier sales last month, as Tokyo warned that smog was blowing into its territory from China, which is grappling with an air pollution crisis. Acrid haze blanketing ...

The suffocating smog that blanketed swathes of China is now hitting parts of Japan, sparking warnings Monday of health fears for the young and the sick. The environment ministry's website has been ...